Volodymyr Zelenskyy woke up Wednesday to a convergence of pressures that would test any wartime leader: a fresh corruption investigation touching his own inner circle and a direct political challenge from the defence minister he fired just a month ago. None of these developments happened in isolation, and the timing […]
Day: August 31, 2026
The Paper Trail Behind “We Don’t Discuss The White House”
When Politico’s Dasha Burns asked Brendan Carr whether he’d spoken with President Trump before or after issuing an unprecedented order forcing ABC to apply early for renewal of its broadcast licenses, the FCC chair gave a practiced non-answer: as a general rule, he said, he doesn’t discuss whether conversations with […]
Will NASAPEC Become The New OPEC?
The US’ newly formalized control over the majority of Venezuela’s oil reserves and Caracas’ potential withdrawal from OPEC could see Trump 2.0 assembling a “North American-South American Petroleum Exporting Countries” group as part of the US’ power play for control over the global oil market. Trump announced over the weekend that the […]
Autonomous Weapons And Killer Robots: New Warnings, Old Habits
Another bleak warning, another round of Cassandra calls about humanity’s immaculate sense of destructive self. This month, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (ICRC) Mirjana Spoljaric Egger issued a joint appeal stating that, “We are now dangerously […]






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